Please, don’t insult our intelligence!

Dear “Compatriot”-Author, It’s funny for me to read this article, because in Albania you seem to communicate better with Italians rather than with your “compatriots” from other regions (outside Albania)..You voluntarily “modified” your language so much that one thinks is somewhere in some southern italian region…or needs a translator!! Your TV programmes and Show’s are copied from Italian TV and so on… Now to the real topic…Strangely enough all of Balkans people think that EU is all about visa-free travel and nothing else, isn’t it!? The overwhelming majority knows absolutely nothing, I say nothing about EU and it’s million+ things that put together this entity…and they don’t care to know, they don’t care to wrap-up their sleeves and WORK in THEIR and FOR their countries, pay regularly the bills, keep it clean, respect law and order and so on! But hey, why bother? One would rather be “second class” citizen and do the “humiliating” jobs!(even though I personally think there’s no “humiliating” job as long as its HONEST and LEGAL). Question: With all due respect, do you live in Albania, do you see around yourself ?The Traffic?? Do you know that that kind of traffic jams and wild-est driving you see only in Africa?! And let’s not continue on other bigger problems. But you choose to slam today Italy, then, other countries? Whole of Europe? rest of the world? Where’s the objectivity and honesty in analyzing the situation? Can you imagine yourself a Swiss for a day and that beautiful country of theirs, and than with all honesty “see” what would you thing of “newcomers”? On the contrary, I don’t wish that all Balkan countries where IN Switzerland but I wish all Balkan countries BECOME like Switzerland. I’m sick and tired of this attitude of “well I am/was poor and isolated so everybody has to take me in and stand me”… To explain myself better, by the fact that Italy puts on TV foreign criminals it’s not because they claim they don’t have their own (they have to deal with them and cannot kick them out, obviously) but most certainly they don’t need to “import” more of it, taking into consideration their own internal problems with organized crime. To conclude, I would suggest you start with your own country and your own government, fix the mess inside and you’ll be ready to go, anywhere.

I'm surprised you guys need visas. Becuase you seem to have scattered yourselves in large numbers across all of Western Europe. Legally or illegally, the UK and Germany in particular are home to large and growing Albanian minorities. Even closer to home, you guys are literally taking over Macedoina and Montenegro. And we have seen what has happened in Serbia. I'm not anti-Albanian....but its observation of mine that traveling does not seem to be a problem for you guys. You seem to somehow defy borders and visa regulations and define your own sometimes as in the case of Kosovo.

To “Albanians are everywhere” Care to elaborate your claims!? Please no “I heard’s I was told’s and internet links” (this Google thing created lot’s of self-proclaimed “experts”)! I mean you can’t just write something, hide ‘any hints’ of your identity, with no facts/proofs/elaboration whatsoever and think you’ll be taken seriously, it might help you put out your frustration and prejudice, nothing more! P.s. And by the way, your comment has very little to do with the article!

I don't see the point to your 'analysis'. there are tens, hundreds maybe, of thousands of albanians that legally or illegally entered italy over the past 15 years. the same happened in greece, switzerland and even the UK, where albanian gangs control much of the prostitution in some parts of london.

Reading the comments above one can clearly see how far the propaganda has gone to vilify Albanians in EU. Nad the logic these westerners use to justify their opinions is pure Goebbels at its best- we are only not giving you visas cause you are criminals (italians are the most criminal nation in the planet, they invented crime), we are democratic and albania isn't( so democratic that Mossad has to kill your far right elected leaders in "accidents" to remind you what would happen if you choose to goose step again), we have electricity and you don't ( all those problems that you ascribe to Albania Romania,Bulgaria and so on had and have in abundance and minority rights are in the craps in any EU country). But you all are right in one point what the hell does Albania want in EU - my view is if it is elite, exclusive and protectionist its bound to be a reich in the end and Albania should stay the hell out of it.

It's so typical of albanians to blame the world for their poor luck.Boringly selfrighteous article.YAWN.

To Bekim, The issue is very simple (without any conspiracy theories), you fix the mess inside your country for your OWN sake and for the sake of the people who live in misery, it’s totally irrelevant whether Albania should join EU or not, people should WANT and WORK for their own better living standards, more jobs, more electricity (well that is needed 24/7 but you also have to bay the bills and kick out corrupt officials), better infrastructure, better public services, better education, better health-care system and so on, but you don’t try to superficially put some cosmetics above just for the sake of showing EU that you are “doing” something!! Are you trying to say that western countries have SAME living standards with Albania???!!!! No that is not true, but I wish you work hard enough to become even better, I really do. There is NO criminal nation anywhere in the world, but there are criminals in every nation. Italy INVENTED crime????!!!! That’s the silliest thing I’ve heard, CRIME is as old as the HUMANITY itself and it always existed, the Italians gave merely a “new” name to form of organized crime with established structures, which again it already existed throughout the world (because you can’t have a criminal organization function without some kind of structure). Bulgaria and Rumania have prematurely entered the Union, everybody knows it, but to their fortune, they have a geo-strategical position which enabled them a faster track, would be enough just to look at the EU map, which speaks for itself. You can’t look away from your own garden and look at you neighbors’ dirty one so you can justify your dirt too.

All I am saying is Albania, Kosova should not join EU, period. We have nothing in common be it cultural, religious or human for that matter with EU countries of today. EU is christian-only, "supremacy" obsessed crap hole that shouldn't come in our radars. There are thousands of alliances that Albania and Kosova could make and would be much better off .